Can someone explain to me the logic that I, as a user, cannot, by default, mount a DVD from the command line, but I can mount it via dolphin?
mark
3 thoughts on - Dumb Question On Permissions Out Of The Box
Dolphin (and consorts) call “udisks” via messagebus / udev protocoll, and thus get the permission / rights to do it without direct “root rights”
You can do that manually fron the commandline via the “udisksctl” tool. See “man udisksctl” for details.
– Yamaban.
PS: No, the question was not dumb, that udev stuff fools me up from time to time to.
Yamaban wrote:
dolphin?
Right. And I’ve only been doing systems administration for, um, 21 years, so I’m not surprised I never heard of udiskctl, and only know mount (and, only recently, pmount).
Thanks, guy. It’s just aggravating that I can’t say mount /dev/dvd0
without jumping through hoops.
mark “Ve Must Protect You From Using Command Line!”
No one is making the command line any harder to use than it used to be.
You can still use the old methods to allow non-root users to mount devices. The developers are just adding new means that don’t require SUID binaries. I don’t think they should be faulted for making a new, user-friendly mechanism for a task without breaking the semantics of the old mechanisms.
3 thoughts on - Dumb Question On Permissions Out Of The Box
Dolphin (and consorts) call “udisks” via messagebus / udev protocoll, and thus get the permission / rights to do it without direct “root rights”
You can do that manually fron the commandline via the “udisksctl” tool. See “man udisksctl” for details.
– Yamaban.
PS: No, the question was not dumb, that udev stuff fools me up from time to time to.
Yamaban wrote:
dolphin?
Right. And I’ve only been doing systems administration for, um, 21 years, so I’m not surprised I never heard of udiskctl, and only know mount (and, only recently, pmount).
Thanks, guy. It’s just aggravating that I can’t say mount /dev/dvd0
without jumping through hoops.
mark “Ve Must Protect You From Using Command Line!”
No one is making the command line any harder to use than it used to be.
You can still use the old methods to allow non-root users to mount devices. The developers are just adding new means that don’t require SUID binaries. I don’t think they should be faulted for making a new, user-friendly mechanism for a task without breaking the semantics of the old mechanisms.